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Yesterday I used an external charger with my e384 and battery indicator just went crazy. After 4 hours it reported only 85% charged. I unplugged it and went to 5%, then plugged it again and suddenly battery was fully charged. I am curious about actual battery life but these days I've been very busy and I could not test it for long periods. For 3 - 4 hours use it goes from 100% to 70 - 60% but I dont know how accurate it is.

Another small issue I had is that I started OF to listen to the world cup in the radio, but after the match I turned it off and tried to start rockbox but it keep starting OF. I had to use reset button and then rockbox worked again.

Hi,this is strange, the battery indicator is based on the voltage so I don't know what could have gone wrong to display this.What you describe is an issue of the OF: you cannot power down the device with it, it only goes to sleep mode. You must reset it to reboot to rockbox.

pamaury, thank you very much. Sorry for my english. I use it on my new nwz-e383. Every things fine.1) SQ in stock < SQ in Rockbox (flat Eq). Rb better. IMHO.2) What themes i can use?3) What is the difference between sonynwze370_1.0.1.firmware.sb (I use this) and sonynwze370_rb_.firmware.sb?4) How I can switch to sony fw and back to rockbox? Now I ON rb with Play and SonyFw with Back, but then I can ON rb only plug the USB cable.

HOLD - long play will be better.

+ battery indicator - OK.Bug 1: When I listening a song and then try to play a track from .CUE, nothing happens - it does not play, but .flac - OK. I must restart player adn play .cue first of all.Bug 2: When the screen turns off playing music it always keeps a soft bright backlight (Screen is gray In the dark).

I have been using rb all these days and battery life is getting a little better. I think it must go for about 10 hours with mp3 music files.

Battery indicator is still crazy. It almost never shows battery fully charged even if I keep charging the device all night. Soft backlight also keeps on. Everything else is working great, and sound quality is just great.

WOWa: To go back to rockbox you have to press reset button.pamaury: whenever you have a new build let me know to test it. I will gladly help!!!

Hi,I have a potential fix for the backlight light problem, I'm currently benchmarking to see the increase in battery life but right now it seems to be pretty good. I'll also use the data to calibrate the discharge curve. Should land into trunk in a few days when confirmed.

EDIT: I have pushed the plugin keymap and backlight fix, feel free to try. What I'm interested in:- feeback on plugins: try them, tell me if some are unusable or you have better keymapping ideas- battery life: it should be much better now, please confirm/bench (you can use the battery_bench plugin, I also encourage you to try against the OF)- backlight: the slight glow should be gone: please confirm

For a battery bench to be useful you must do it the proper way: start from full battery, reasonable volume (something you would listen to), load a very big album/playlist, select repeat all, and run the battery_bench plugin. Wait until it fully discharged. Don't forget to plug the headphones. The battery_bench log file will be at the root of the player.

Hi,rockbox is working on this target despite what the front page status (unusable) might make one thinks. Installation still has to be done manually following the instructions on the wiki, please use the nightly builds because we not have a released version yet.

Greetings! I've just gotten the Sony NWZ-E85, which I did foolishly before finding out if it was compatible with Rockbox and further without realizing just how addicted to Rockbox I was. I've been using it for the past year or two on my Sansa Fuze, which sadly broke, and now I find I simply cannot live with the standard MP3 player's OF. They're so crap! Ugh! Just looking at them makes me want to puke my face off! You've spoiled me and now I can't do without you, is what you Rockbox bastards have done. >.<

Well so, here are a few things I've noticed.

1 - I can't seem to get a numeric value on either my battery nor my volume. I've clicked "Numeric" for both of them, and it's set to that every time I go in, and yet they still display graphical. :C This is my current most important issue (along with #2 coming up), because I really like the numeric volume especially. I have no idea what I'm on with that little bar that's only an estimation, really. I like it on 6 for my car and -14 or so for my ears! THAT'S what I know, not this crazy little inaccurate volume bar!!2 - Keymapping hmmm. I think you've done well with this, except for the already mentioned power on/off button. Currently you've got the PWR/HOLD as how you turn OFF the player, but to turn it on you press the play/pause button. I know you mentioned before some people suggesting the reassignment of the player's power function, but I agree with your point that it is just... weird. I'd prefer to have the same key power it on and off, and I'd prefer to have that key be the original PWR/HOLD button doing both. At the very least, if you won't change it, would it be possible to have the PWR/HOLD button ALSO turn on the player, in addition to the play/pause button? That way I can just use that button for both on and off and ignore the fact that the play/pause puts it on. It just would make me feel a lot better because I'm... just anal-retentive about this issue. I want PWR for power and I want it to be on AND off! *Stomps feet tantrum-style*3 - I've tried a few game plugins (Xobox, Bubbles, Brickmania) and they work fine so far. (It's hard for me to play the damn things with buttons instead of a wheelie-gig like my Sansa had, but again my problem.) I'll post again (if you want, that is) if anything glitches out.4 - I too have the faint glow problem that other fellow mentioned, but it seems to go away after a while and doesn't drain the battery so I don't know if it matters. I mean sometimes it's not even there. Right now it's not. I don't even know if I imagined it, because it's only visible in HIGH light anyway, which makes no sense if it's a glow. Maybe it's a crazy reflection! I don't know!! I could only be seeing it because that other guy put it in my head! DAMN YOU AND YOUR PUTTING THINGS IN MY HEAD!! I mean that could've been there with the OF and I didn't notice it. :/ So not really an important issue, I guess, is what I'm saying.

My battery life seems to be pretty good but I've only just gotten songs and stuff sorted out so I've barely used it enough to test. Like the other fella, I do get weird reports when I'm charging, with it fluctuating from like 35% to 80% and back down again.

Side-note that no one will care about: It was sad to me that I couldn't get any themes for this thing, but then that's my fault for having a crazy screened player I didn't vet out. (Seriously, why is it vertical!) I have fixed this problem now by making my own theme now, which I never set out to do, but accidentally learned all about it in my retentive desire to just take away the yellow of Cabbie because I hate yellow... and the effort took me like six friggin' hours, but it was worth it because now I have an awesome awesome theme that's like so awesome OMG!! (Well, it's probably not awesome to everyone. But I love it anyway.)

Anyway so, that's what I've got to say about that.

In closing, you guys are great. I'm glad I've at least got you on this platform, even a little bit, because I love your Rockbox, I really do. So even if you never fix any of those issues above, I'll still keep you on my thingiemabob.

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